Bus-Tech has a zDASD product as you have described. I am not aware that StorageTek has such a product. Based on my web searches and searching the Oracle (STK) website, I found no listing for zDASD by StorageTek. Pratt Parrish | WW Manager of Channel Development and Marketing | Bus-Tech, Inc.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Miklos Szigetvari Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 9:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd On 10/14/2010 3:17 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: >> I think that sig is meant in jest. > Of course it is! > If people are taking it seriously ... > - > I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation! > Kimota! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > Maybe late in this track, but we have cheap DASD , as we have zDASD from StorageTech and DS4300 IBM Raid Array behind. (can emulate ESCON or FICON channels and using the Raid array behind) Till we don't have serious problems it was cheap, but as we got DASD errors in the daily backup jobs, it started to be not so cheap. After some GTF traces StorageTech has fixed this problem, so it it cheap again ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html